# Ronald Anthony

> Staff Software Engineer at Meta

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ronaldanthony

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
AI Engineer
Tech Lead – WhatsApp Security(2021–Present)
* On Device scam detection for WhatsApp
* Led the development of WhatsApp Business messaging One-Time Password (OTP) API, enhancing security and user verification mechanisms.
* Designed Autofill security codes, improving user experience and authentication reliability & security. Principal author of a pending patent related to this innovation.

Tech Lead – Videos Infrastructure Team (2015–2021)
* Led the development and optimization of media ingestion infrastructure used across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger for products like Reels, Stories, and Newsfeed, supporting billions of videos per day.
* Designed and built the camera effects tech stack enabling advanced media enhancement and creative tools.
* Co-authored a pending patent on Media Editing with Client-side Edits and Server-side Edits, a technology that enables intelligent processing by dynamically distributing video transformation tasks between mobile devices and cloud servers. This ML-driven optimization improves user experience, reduces server load, and ensures scalable ingestion performance.

### Mobile Engineer @ Pocket Gems
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco
* Developed iOS games, contributing to titles like:
  * Secret Passages – Hidden Objects (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/secret-passages-hidden-objects/id643088844)
  * War Dragons (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/war-dragons/id958763157)
* Focused on optimizing graphics (OpenGL) and client-side performance of the in-house mobile isometric game engine.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Chennai Area, India
* Feature additions to Kindle for PC & Mac application.
* Improvements to performance and reliability of e-book ingestion infrastructure that powers Kindle Cloud Reader (read.amazon.com).
* Android Launcher for Amazon Preloaded Phones – Developed key features optimizing launcher performance.

### Subject Matter Expert @ Amdocs
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Pune Area, India
* Part of the core R&D team tasked with reducing the time required to import large-scale telecom billing and order data from legacy systems into Amdocs’ core product suite.
* Re-architected ETL software by introducing multithreading, improving runtime performance by over 90%.
* Built an XPath interpreter for applying expressions to in-memory object graphs, enhancing query efficiency.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ronald-anthony-90a38428

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Last updated: 2026-04-12